2024
November 16 – Ryan Townsend Strand and Karina Kontorovich perform May I, May You and the Dear Mrs. Kennedy cycle at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL.
November 8 – album release of Dear Mrs. Kennedy, a song cycle commissioned by Ryan Townsend Strand (tenor) with Karina Kontorovich (piano) featuring 15 composers. May I, May You, are based on letters sent to Jacqueline Kennedy following the assassination of her President Kennedy.
November 3 – New Music Ensemble @ the Hayes School of Music perform Abrade.
November 2 and 3 – Northwest Chamber Singers performed she took his hands on their program, Our Common Fate, in Seattle, WA.
October 26 and 27 – Stare at the Sun performed A Strategy for Confrontation in Chicago.
September 2 – Ritual Action (reed trio) performed his re-imaging of Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Diaphonic Suite No. 1 at Constellation in Chicago.
April 27th – when we speak of the land presented at SEAMUS in Atlanta: Forest in a City with Bent Frequency
Interviews and broadcasts of Watersheds: WRUU Savannah and WMBR Cambridge.
April – Motion Studies reviews: Donald Rosenberg from Gramophone – “Cline’s sonic vocabulary ranges from darting phrases to rich choral webs and ethereal passages.” WOSU’s Jennifer Hambrick writes “musical colors shift in […] as a prism might refract the light of the slowly setting sun, making time seem timeless even as it passes.”
April 13 – Ryan Townsend Strand performed the song cycle Letters To Jackie at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis, including May I, May You.
April 5 – Watersheds released on Motion Studies (Navona Records, 2024) with The Crossing | Donald Nally conductor, Matthew Levy tenor saxophone. A track was featured on the ASCAP New Music Friday Playlist.
March 22 – the gentle rain which waters released as a single for upcoming album, Motion Studies.
March 17 – Northminster Chancel Choir (John Wright, conductor) performed she took his hands in Indianapolis.
January 26 – Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District 2 Chorus Festival performed she took his hands (SSA).
January 19 – Shades, by saxophonist Jeff Siegfried, is available via streaming and digital download. Includes the premiere recording of water-witching, written for Jeff.
2023
December 31 – Great Music in a Great Space at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY perform she took his hands. New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace. Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine (Kent Tritle, conductor).
December 9 – premiere of Liminal Soundings for saxophone and electronics with Jeff Siegfried at the World Saxophone Congress, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
November 19 – premiere of May I, may you from Letters to Jackie, a song cycle commissioned by Ryan Townsend Strand (tenor) featuring 15 composers. The cycle is based on letters sent to Jacqueline Kennedy following the assassination of her President Kennedy.
October 27 – Watersheds receives an honorable mention from The American Prize, choral music division
August 4 – premiere of a bend in the branch for two baroque flutes by Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham and Barbara Hopkins at the 2023 National Flute Association Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
July 9 – The EcoVoice Project Festival presents Watersheds at Loyola University Chicago. Kirsten Hedegaard conducts New Earth Ensemble with Joe Connor, saxophone.
March 22-29 – Jeff Siegfried (saxophone) performs water-witching on a tour at several universities in the southeast: University of Memphis, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Appalachian State University
March 23 – Cal Lutheran Choir of California Lutheran University (Wyant Morton, conductor) perform she took his hands
E.C. Schirmer published she took his hands as part of their initial launch of the Donald Nally Contemporary Voices Series
2022
September 19, 20 – members from the Southern Nevada Chamber Orchestra performs r_carson on UNLV Nextet Series
August 7 – The Crossing perform she took his hands at the Ventura Music Festival
May 20, 22 – The William Ferris Chorale premieres our breaths come in restless tides in Chicago, IL
April 2 – premiere of rasp for prepared harp and electronics, Ben Melsky (harp) at the SEAMUS 2022 National Conference @ Western Michigan University
April 2, 3 – La Crosse Chamber Chorale perform she took his hands
March 19 – ~Nois premieres Meander (I) at Appalachian State University
March – Roots in the Sky @ Big Sky, Bozeman, and Minneapolis perform she took his hands
Feb 1 – Faculty Concert @ Appalachian State University, 8:00pm, Rosen Concert Hall, Eric Koontz and Soo Goh perform abrade
January-February – The Crossing perform she took his hands on tour at the University of Richmond, Longwood Gardens, Hamilton College, Bucknell College, Lafayette College, Franklin & Marshall College
2021
December – Drexel University Chamber Singers, conductor Dan Spratlan perform she took his hands
November 21 – The Crossing with Matt Levy perform Watersheds (New York Times Fall Preview)
September 13-17 – allay for solo piano, presented during Research and Creative Activity at Appalachian
April 22 – when we speak of the land, for bass drum and electronics presented at the Earth Day Art Model festival hosted by IUPUI. The performance was streamed live from the Robert F. Gilley Recording Studio at Appalachian State University.
March 16 – movements from Watersheds presented by Kirsten Hedegaard and the New Earth Ensemble at the Climate Change Conference hosted by Loyola University Chicago.